Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred BesterA collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male. |
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... Gaul was a monster . With his choice of any eligible young woman , Oddy Gaul went stag to the Observatory Prom , wandered into a darkroom by mistake , and discovered a girl in a smock bending over trays in the hideous green safe - light ...
... Gaul was a monster . With his choice of any eligible young woman , Oddy Gaul went stag to the Observatory Prom , wandered into a darkroom by mistake , and discovered a girl in a smock bending over trays in the hideous green safe - light ...
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... Gaul was commissioned subaltern in a line regiment , but gazetted to Intelligence on May 3. On June 24 he was appointed A.D.C. to the Joint Forces Council meeting in the ru- ins of what had been Australia . On July 11 , he was brevetted ...
... Gaul was commissioned subaltern in a line regiment , but gazetted to Intelligence on May 3. On June 24 he was appointed A.D.C. to the Joint Forces Council meeting in the ru- ins of what had been Australia . On July 11 , he was brevetted ...
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... Gaul the Glorious , Gaul the Gauleiter , Gaul the God Eternal who has achieved the savage , selfish satisfaction for which all of us unconsciously yearn from birth , but which only Oddy Gaul has won . STAR LIGHT , STAR BRIGHT he man in ...
... Gaul the Glorious , Gaul the Gauleiter , Gaul the God Eternal who has achieved the savage , selfish satisfaction for which all of us unconsciously yearn from birth , but which only Oddy Gaul has won . STAR LIGHT , STAR BRIGHT he man in ...
Contents
They Dont Make Life Like They Used To | 191 |
Will You Wait? | 225 |
Adam and No Eve | 273 |
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Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester,Roger Zelazny Limited preview - 1997 |
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